The May Case-Shiller brought great news for the Texas housing market, with home prices in the state putting up some of the best numbers in the nation. May was a historic month for home prices in the Lone Star

How do consumers search for homes? Is the Internet still king, or are other, more traditional methods still of use? Read on to find out. In today’s housing market, there are a seemingly limitless array of options for how

Booming real estate market and other factors reveal that Texas is a popular destination. With the real estate market picking up, it appears that a lot of people are moving to Texas. Eight of the 15 fastest-growing cities are

National homebuilder, KB Home, announced recently that it has acquired nearly 100 acres for a new community called Lakewood Pines in Atascocita, located northeast of Houston. KB Home will begin land development later this year for over 300 homesites

Stacy Sutter, CEO of Big City Properties, is teaming up with Prudential Anderson in a move that will benefit both companies. Big City is the premier REO broker in Houston. Rick Young, of Prudential Anderson Properties, calls them a

Bulldozers have finally begun to demolish the Montrose Fiesta grocery store, which has been closed for more than a year, according to Culture Map Houston. Fiesta has occupied a place in the shopping center that was formerly a 1962

Chuck Norris’s home, which appeared on his hit television series, “Walker, Texas Ranger,” is currently on the market for $1.2 million in Dallas. Offscreen, Norris co-owned the Mediterranean ranch-style home in the neighborhood of Northwood Hills with his brother, Aaron. But

The National Association of Realtors has approved changes to the Realtor.com website that will open the site to non-Realtor listings and rentals. The National Association of Realtors’ Board of Directors yesterday approved a number of amendments to its popular Realtor.com website

It’s the big question on everybody’s mind – will the rising mortgage rates of the last couple months produce a noticeable fall in home sales? Mortgage rates have been on the rise the last couple months. Since the beginning

June was a rollicking good month for new residential home sales, which posted strong increases on both monthly and yearly measures. New single-family home sales were up 38.1 percent year-over-year in June, in addition to an 8.3 percent monthly

The news was good for housing inventory in Monday’s existing-home sales report from NAR, but has the situation improved at all here at home? Housing inventory nationwide increased just under 2 percent from May to June, rising to a

Upscale buyers are a different breed of consumer, and their desires for their residences are outside the beaten path, as a new NAHB survey uncovered. What do the affluent want? That’s the question at the center of a very

June’s existing-home sales may have fallen from May, but they retained strong yearly increases, while other fundamentals improved. Existing-home sales may have fallen by 1.2 percent from May to June, but June’s seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.08 million

Katy has broken new ground as the 4th highest site for construction in the Greater Houston Area, according to a recent article by Your Houston News. Houston’s population is making a westward push toward the Energy Corridor for sources

Compromise is an inevitable component of the homebuying process…or is it? A new NAR survey has tracked what homebuyers do – and do not – compromise on. News flash: the homebuying process can be a darned frustrating experience. You

Darling Homes is bringing some of its most sought after homes to one of Houston’s most recognizable places, Avalon at Riverstone in Sugar Land. The limited-release debut on July 26 marks the first time the Houston home builder has